Leo Ascher

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Leo Ascher 1917

Leo Ascher (born August 17, 1880 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died February 25, 1942 in New York ) was an Austrian composer and lawyer.

Life

Leo Ascher, son of the umbrella manufacturer Moritz Ascher and Eva Friedenthal. He had two sisters, his brother Adolf Arnold Ascher (1867–1938) was murdered by the National Socialists. Ascher studied piano at the Conservatory for Music in Vienna with Hugo Reinhold and Louis Thern , composition with Robert Fuchs and Franz Schmidt . He also studied law and received his doctorate in law from the University of Vienna in 1904. His first operetta Vergelt 's Gott was premiered in 1905. From 1905 to 1932 he composed over 30 operettas.

In 1909/1910 Ascher was musical director of the Fledermaus Cabaret together with Béla Laszky . In the 1920s, Ascher began writing folk songs and film music. After he was arrested on Reichskristallnacht , he emigrated after his release in 1938 via France and England to New York, where he had lived with his wife and daughter as a lawyer specializing in copyright matters since 1939. Although his works were also performed under the National Socialists, he did not receive any royalties for them. In the last years of his life he lived in poor conditions. During this time he wrote patriotic songs and teaching literature for children.

Ascher was married to Louise Frankl (1872–1952), their daughter is the writer Franzi Ascher-Nash .

His artistic estate is kept at the Leo Ascher Center of Operetta Music at Millersville University of Pennsylvania . Letters, pictures, manuscripts and printed music are well processed there.

Works

Leo Ascher composed operettas, Viennese songs, chansons in several languages ​​and film music.

Operettas

Postcard for the operetta "Bruder Leichtsinn", 1917

Songs and chansons

Movies

Honors

  • 1955: Aschergasse in Vienna- Hietzing (13th district)

literature

  • Sabine Vernik-Eibl : "The life and work of the composers Georg Jarno and Leo Ascher. Their significance for the Viennese operetta in the first two decades of the 20th century with an analysis by DIE FÖRSTER-CHRISTL and HOHEIT TANZT WALZER." Dissertation University of Vienna, 2011. Full text online (PDF; 2.4 MB) accessed on November 1, 2012.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 36f.
  • Leo Ascher Papers
  • "Say goodbye ..." Viennese audience favorites in images and sound by Robert Dachs , exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna 1992. Leo Ascher was dedicated to a separate section.
  • Michael Buhrs, Barbara Lesák, Thomas Trabitsch (eds.): Fledermaus-Cabaret: 1907 to 1913; a total work of art by the Wiener Werkstätte; Literature, music, dance (on the occasion of the exhibition Cabaret Fledermaus 1907–1913; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, October 18, 2007 - January 27, 2008, Austrian Theater Museum, Vienna, February 28 - June 8, 2008); With contributions from Andrea Amort , Claudia Feigl, Peter Jelavich, Barbara Lesák, Heinz Lunzer and Victoria Lunzer-Talos, Herta Neiß, Gerd Pichler, Georg Wacks - Vienna: Brandstätter, 2007; ISBN 978-3-85033-082-4

Web links

Commons : Leo Ascher  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Berg Gesellschaft ( Memento from February 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In blue moonlight - A foray through the program of the cabaret Die Fledermaus , PDF 1.12MB.
  2. ^ R. Wiesinger:  Ascher, Leo . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
  3. ↑ Helen A. Ganser Library, Millersville University, Leo Ascher Papers, 1893–1980 ( Memento of October 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Ascher, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1942
Place of death New York City